Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-13
ADDITIONAL NEWS.


the Michigan Legislature. 1t prohibits the
use of store orders, scrip, notes or certifl-
Gates in payment of labor. 1t also makes
it imperative on all employers of labor to
pay at least monthly. Any violation OF
these provisions is made a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine of from SIS to $50.
A SHOCK of earthquake was plainly felt
at Elpaso, Texas, which lasted about two
minutes. 1t was perceptible in every por-
ton of the city. The shock SO alarmed
the citizens of MI classes that only invalids
and the helpless were left within doors. No
serious damage has resulted in this neigh
borhood.
A REPORT that large number of cases
of leprosy had developed in the parish of
St. Martin. Louisiana, and that the dis
ease was spreading, resulted in the finding
of three cases Of undoubted leprosy.
GRoTTKAN has been indicted for incit-
ing riot at Milwaukee last May.
HAIL as large as goose eggs fell at St.
Paul during the storm of last week. Some
of them weighed four ounces and meas
ured nine inches in circumference.
EDWARD STOKES, the slayer of Jim
Fisk, is one of the busiest as we'll as one
of the ha ndsomest men in New York. He
owns the Merchants and Bankers Tele-
graph, runs the Hoffman House and is
manager of Mr.. Mackay's telegraph inter-
ests. He has for his lawyers Col. Inger-
soil, ex- Senator Conkling and others as
formidable.
A FINE body of emigrants, 300 strong,
from Norway, have just reached Utah,
where they will join the Mormons. The
party is composed of men, women and
children, and they all seem intelligent, are
we'll dressed and seem to have money.
They regard Utah as possessing all the
richness of the promised land. They are
! accompanied by several Mormon elders
who have been in Norway On a PROSECUTING
tour.
THE Lone Star state is and has been
experiencing bad drouth. In all that
belt of country between San Antonio and
Austin, from Austin to Waco, from Waco
to Bremond, and down the Central railroad
to Houston, and in the circumference de-
scy1bed by this geographical circle, the
crop of oats and small grain are almost q
total failure, while corn, which should be
well advanced and vigorous, is seriously
wi!ted and in bad condition at the roots.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, was visited by a
severe windstorm this week, which un-
rooted the opera house, music hall and
several other buildings.
| A NEW time card has gone in effect or
the st. Paul road. Trains will now make
the time between Kansas City and St
Paul in twenty one hours.
SIOUX FALLS is scheming for the Will
mar and Sioux Falls Railroad. The COM
pany asks $50, 1000 bonus and the right Of
way from the north line of the county to
that city.
WORK is being vigorously pushed on the
Aberdeen, Bismarck and Northwestern
road, and all the laborers and teams
along the line are employed. The grade
will soon be completed from Aberdeen to
Bismarck.
The people of Mason City, Iowa, are
clamoring for railroad connecting then
with Winona.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SMITH, Of
the Union Pacific, has accepted the gen.
eral managership of the Denver and Rio
Grande road.
The shipments of Pacific coast freigh
from Chicago have jumped from two ant
three carloads to twenty carloads daily
since the new rates went into effect.
The Illinois Central has established .
pine and cypress tariff from Mississippi
and Louisiana to Dubuque. The rate OF
the lumber in box cars is 80 cents, in fla
cars sc cents.